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How to Test for Fabric Shrinkage

Fabric shrinkage is a phenomenon that occurs when fabric is exposed to heat and/or steam. I have seen it wreak havoc with designers that are unaware of its costly repercussions.

What is a #pleatninja?

Pleating is defined as the systematic folding of fabric.  Now, I’m sure you know what a ninja is but look at the origin of the word.  According to dictionary.com, nin- = endure and -ja/-sha = perso...

How to Use Machine Pleating

I’m still here! I know I haven’t blogged in a while but I’ve been in the trenches pleating away!  I bet you just can’t live without another post regarding pleating….so I apologize and I will try no...

What Happens When You Sunburst Pleat Striped Fabric?

I must say that this is the coolest thing!  Obviously printed fabric looks different when pleated.  Usually the end result is beautiful, but not always.  However, when pleating lines and geometric ...

Textured Leather Skins

There are many techniques that we use for fabric manipulation. We apply these to textiles and even finished garments.  We applied some of our texturizing and crushing techniques to leather and got ...

Fortuny Pleated Leather

We were lucky to get our hands on a very fine leather skin and decided to try a Fortuny pleat.  As I have mentioned in previous posts,  pleating leather can be tricky, but this skin came out perfec...

More Pleated Potato Chip Wrappers

In case you haven’t figured it out yet, we really like being creative and we try to pleat EVERYTHING! I don’t think there are many things left on the planet that we haven’t tried to pleat. Here we ...

Metallic Pleated Leather

We just completed this really cool project for Mood Fabrics. It was quite tricky since we had to  pleat an entire assortment of leathers . Every leather skin had to be pleated in a different way in...

How To Recognize A Poorly Pleated Skirt!

Let me start by saying that this skirt was NOT pleated by us! A client brought it to us as a sample of a garment pleated overseas. This demonstrates extremely poor quality pleating and we were surp...

Pleated Dancing Sleeves

Cheryl, our client in Clearwater, Florida, is a ballroom dancer. She recently contacted us requesting wings for an upcoming dance showcase. This would be a challenge for us as we had  to create som...